Show BRYAN MAKES FULL DENIAL not employed by mining men nor anyone fiffas never received iam lvcy money front from mil ver baronn for loter vicen I 1 tendered effern to make a complete state nirna if the he national republican will malfe maim sort an explicit charge up upper per red hook NY N Y aug IS 18 on ills his return from a fishing trip tonight hon william J bryan dry an gave out a prepared answer to the allegations allegation made by senator john al AI thurston ton that mr air bryan was in the pay of tile the mine owners lie denied the allegations without qualification and practically invited the republican national committeeman to make the charge officially lit in or order der that lie he might be given a chance to show exactly what ills his income had been and from what source it was derived mr bryans bryan I 1 s statement Is as follows 11 1 I have already denounced this charge on several occasions but tile the reiteration of it by senator thurston a distinguished resident of my own state justifies justices me in answering it aa again ain I 1 have never at any time lime or under any circumstances been it in I 1 the employ of any mine owners individually or collectively directly or indirectly nor have I 1 ever been in the employ or been paid by any bimetallic organization aside front from my editorial salary of about ISO per month paid by tile he world herald and a small amount derived from the legal profession my income since my retirement front from congress has leen keen derived from lectures before Chatau lyceums lyce unis and lecture bureaus which have usually paid tile me a fixed sum and front from contributions made by the people of the localities where I 1 have spoken in some instances I 1 have received nothing at all in most places I 1 have received enough to cover traveling expenses lit in only two instances I 1 think has my compensation exceeded too and in these instances it was wa about at one place and about boo at the other the first platform upon which I 1 ran tor for congress in iago 1890 before I 1 was known politically outside of my state contained a tree free coinage plank and my republican opponent that year was an ail advocate of free coinage in the campaign of 1892 1 again ran upon a tree free coinage platform and my opponent for the senate mr air thurston while opposing unlimited coinage at 16 to I 1 i insisted that lie he favored bi sin I 1 wrote the free coinage plank upon which I 1 ran in 1890 and the free coinage planks antho in the nebraska state platforms in 1891 1894 isis s and 1896 and tried to secure tile the adoption of free coinage planks in III the state stale platforms of 1892 and 1893 1 I only mention this to show that my advocacy of free silver is not of recent date dale having made this answer to mr air thurstons Thurs tons letter I 1 shall hereafter take no notice of individual or newspaper comments upon this subject if the republican national committee will say officially that they believe I 1 have ever been employed to deliver speeches by any mine owner or group of mine owners or by any association supported by mine owners I 1 am ready to loaec inake a statement showing in detail all money received by me for speechmaking speech making |